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Sun, 12 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [778]
Yes, we did - on May sixth, which also marks our one year anniversary of our departure from Marin County, Fairfax, Good Earth parking lot, Java Hut and our bestest friends....sigh..........
Anyhow - yes, good, we decided to take the newly paved road ... Read more >
Sun, 12 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [1174]
Feeling a little hesitant leaving Colombia and it's super friendly people....
Our first stop at a Super Market for food and comparing prices I was wronged of that worry right away.
Two elder ladies (what the hell do I know now about who is elder ... Read more >
Sun, 12 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 | By vickisampson | 
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The Botanical Gardens of Quito are located in the Parque La Carolina, in the centre of Quito. This small but comprehensive botanical gardens contains thousands of species of plants both indigenous and exotic, to Ecuador and the Andes region. There is ...
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By travelcrazy26 | Views [370]
During the last two days in Santa Cruz, Jen and I went to a water hole where you can jump from a cliff into the water. Unfortunately, it was packed full of people and I nearly sprained my ankle on the rocks. This resulted in a hot limp for a day and ... Read more >
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By docvalnd | Views [322] | Scholarship Entry
People are Basically Kind Day 1: I looked into the eyes of the man that reached into our cab and ripped my travel wallet from my body. The police asked me to identify him. I could see his fear and foremost the light within him. The incident took ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By valpro | Photo Gallery
Some of the people I met while in Ecuador.
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Tags: carnival, children, diving, ecuador, people, quechua
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By valpro | Views [385] | Scholarship Entry
Juan, the Shaman: A Local Encounter that Changed my Perspective The three weeks I spent with a shaman and his family in the Amazon region of Ecuador broke down quite a few of my preconceived ideas of medicine men or witch doctors as they are sometimes ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013
Tue, 9 Apr 2013 | By andylawrence | Views [344] | Comments [1]
Sunday, April 7 - Tuesday, April 9
Traveled from Cuenca Guayaquil on Sunday and then from Guayaquil to Buenos Aires via Panama City and Lima on Monday, April 8. That particular leg of the trip only took about 24 hours, including a 3 hour lay over ... Read more >
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 | By travelcrazy26 | Views [401]
So let me first just say, everyday that I wake up here I think to myself, "How f***ing lucky am I?!" It's that amazing. Whatever visions you have of this place, if you've never been...it's a million times more amazing than that. Truth. If you've been, ... Read more >
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 | By travelcrazy26 | Views [2534]
So after a shuttle bus from the hostel to the bus station, waiting around, another bus to the airport, getting stopped and forced to buy a ticket on the spot out of Ecuador so I could get on my flight, buying a flight last minute at 5AM, slightly buzzed, ... Read more >
Sat, 23 Mar 2013 | By old_star | Views [310] | Scholarship Entry
“No recuerdo me!” were the words the little six year-old spoke to me as I waved goodbye and she headed back to her home on stilts at the edge of the Cayapus River. The jungles of Ecuador had been my home for two sizzling hot weeks as I worked to bring ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013
Sat, 16 Mar 2013 | By christelpeters | Views [884]
This journal entry is not about a recent destination I've visited. It's more about the journey that brought me here. I hope that it can inspire someone or at least help all of those people who do not understand my decision to do this a little ... Read more >
Tags: being single, brave, changing your life, lonely, solo travel
Wed, 27 Feb 2013 | By christelpeters | Views [822] | Comments [2]
I have not written about my experience in Cuenca for a few weeks. One reason is I wanted to distance myself from it and not write a horrible review just because I was in a funk for the last 10 days of my stay there. Another is because once ... Read more >
Tags: carnaval, cuenca, musea del banco central
Tue, 5 Feb 2013 | By christelpeters | Views [841]
It has been an interesting week. Last Sunday I went with my host family (Liz and her children Luigi and Analei) on a short road trip. We followed a route known as the Ruta de las Cascadas ( the route of the waterfalls). Tourists usually ... Read more >
Tags: banos, buses in ecuador, canyoning, geotours, language barrier, loneliness, pailon, rafting
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